Rail-joint.



No. 845,313. PATENTED FEB. 26, 190'?. N. MYRIN. RAIL JOINT.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 16, 1906.

Am f 1 NILS MYRIN, OF THIEF RVER FriLLS,- MINNESOTA.

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Specification of Letters Patent. p pplication tiled May 16,1906. SerialNo. 317.063.

Be it known that L Nine MYRi-N, a citizen of the United States, residingat Thief River Falls, in the county of Rediiake and State of `Minnesota,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints; and lido hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains tomake and use the same. f

My invention has for its object to provide an improved rail-joint; andto .this end it consists of the novel .construction and com-a.

bination of partsv hereinafter"described, and deiined in the claim:

The invention is illustrated-in the accompanying drawings, wherein likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views. I

' Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a plan view illustrating myinvention applied l to connect the abutting endsv of two alined rails toa tie. -FigfQ is a vertical section taken on the line 9:2 m2 of Fig. 1,and Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line fc3 x3 of Fig. l. Thenumeral 1 indicates an ordinary railway-tie, rand the numeral 2indicates abut-- ting end portions of rails, which, except as'hereinafter pointed Lout, are of the usual construction.

rlhe numeral 3 indicates a metallic saddlei plate which is placed upon.the tie l and upon which the abutting or adjoining ends of the rails 2are rested ila-twise. 0ntho outer side ot the rail the saddle-plate 3 isi'orlned with laterally-spaced stop-lugs 4, .against which-the outeredges of the ioot-ii'ange of tho rails directly press, These stop-lugs 4prevent spreading of the rails. The saddle- `plateB is formed-with aplurality ofdepending transversely-extended anchoring-ilanges 5, thatare quite sharp at their and are pressed into the tie l., therebyprevent-ing creeping movements of the saddleplats in the direction ofthe rails and also transversely of the rails. At transverselyo positepoints and at its intermediate portion the saddle-plate 3 is formed withspikc- I passages 6, and just outward of these spikepassagessaid plateis preferably formed with raised lugs 7, against which the outer ortieneof the spike-heads engage, as' estv shawn La Eig. 2. The s are driven.

Patented Feb. 2S, 190'?.

extended ilanges of their heads impinge upon the i`oot-ilanges oitherails to lock the rails to the saddle-plate 3, and hence to the tieIn accordance with my invention the abut-l ting ends of the rails arebeveled or cut at an oblique angle, the said oblique out being in lanethat extends from a point on the one side` of the head of the one spiketo a point on the other side of the head of the other spike, as clearlyshown in Fig. 1. lith this construction the two spikes 8 may be and arelolcated at transversely-opposite points, so .that-they act upon therail in very much the same manner as it the rail was not out orseparated in the vicinity thereof.

The numeral 9 indicates angular iishplates that overlap the pointsbetween abutting ends of the rails and are clamped to the opposite sidesthereof by means of nutted bolts `10. The seats in the vertical webs ofthe rails through which the bolts 10 are passed should in practicebeelongated, so as to permit endwise expansions and contractions of thcrails.

Thedevice while eicientjor the purposes had in view alcrds a cheap andpractical construction.

Ahe combination Withe tie and a saddleplate secured thereon,- saidsaddie-platehaving spike-passages and ings 7 all located in a verticalplane that intersects the track at right angles, and havingat its outerside laterally-spaced rail-engaging stop-lugs e, of alined rails havingtheir abutting ends resting upon said saddle-plate, the said abuttingends being cut obliquely from a point on one side of one of thespike-passages of said saddle-plate, to a point on the other side of thespike-passage of said plate, fish-plates se-v Nits infami Witnesses G.K. FARGO, Ui. Jacossou.

